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Odyssey by Fischerspooner
This, the long awaited follow up to #1, will without a doubt bring Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner back into the public consciousness where they belong. More song-based than their debut offering, Odyssey has an acoustic, analogue sound that is rarely heard in modern electronic music. Vocals also feature more heavily and give the record an eerie feel, especially when set against the habitual bass and synth backdrop. The lyrics’ surreal quality might also stem from the fact that many of them are drawn from ‘Spam’ emails. ‘Everything to Gain’, for example, was inspired
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Full Spanish Breakfast
Pablo Mirrales is the antithesis of a habitual hero. Overweight, spliff smoking, croissant guzzling, and addicted to philosophy chat rooms on the Internet, he may nonetheless be easier to identify with than your typical protagonist. Pablo is by all accounts the ‘black sheep’ of his wealthy Barcelona-based family. Happy to live in a grotty rented flat and spend his time in bars, he lets his brother ‘The First’ take care of the family business.
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